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Transversal

adjective
1.
Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis.  Synonyms: cross, thwartwise, transverse.  "From the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully" , "Transversal vibrations" , "Transverse colon"





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"Transversal" Quotes from Famous Books



... this subject before raising it to unmistakable clearness in your minds. The vibrations of light being transversal, the elasticity concerned in the propagation of any ray is the elasticity at right angles to the direction of propagation. In Iceland spar there is one direction round which the crystalline molecules are symmetrically built. This direction ...
— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall
... have a close affinity with each other—all of them being more or less marked with the peculiar transversal bands or "stripes," which are the well-known characteristics of the zebra. Even the quagga is so banded upon the head and upper parts ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid


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